Google Street View has taken us to the ends of the world and back (in time). But now, its taking us where no Street View camera has taken us before—into the Arabian desert on the back of a 10-year-old camel named Raffia.

While backpackers have strapped Google's Trekker's on their backs in the past when cars couldn't cut it, according to Joyce Baz, spokeswoman for Google in the Middle East and North Africa, Raffia was a no-brainer:

With every environment and every location, we try to customize the capture and how we do it for that part of the environment. In the case of Liwa we fashioned it in a way so that it goes on a camel so that it can capture imagery in the best, most authentic and least damaging way.